15 July 2014

Who Wants A Smartwatch?

Apparently, not many people do --Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch? -- NYMag: "Despite all the buzz surrounding wearables, it isn’t clear who’s supposed to be buying them. Fewer than half of the respondents to a recent Accenture survey said they would consider buying a smartwatch, and even the most optimistic experts predict only 20 million smartwatch sales this year, a pittance compared with phone and tablet sales. "The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valley: "How John Arrillaga Sr. [real estate developer] transformed California fruit orchards into high-priced office space for the likes of Google, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and Cisco."Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook EmployeesWall Street Journal (blog)Google considered having its cofounders personally recruit Facebook workers and instituted a policy to make counteroffers within an hour to workers ...